Logout

Status

Released on (mm/dd/yyyy) : 01/20/2012

Objective of session logout process

Session logout have to objective to cancel conversation established between the browser and the web server. We means here, by conversation, several browser request and response that has been linked between them.

Steps of session logout process

Logout is composed by 2 steps:

Invalidate user session (indicate to web server that the session is not used anymore).

Cancel cookie send by the web server to track user session (and also all cookies sent by web application, this, in order to have a global clean state).